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Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

Milton Friedman

Columbus

Majority

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

Louise Erdrich

America

Columbus

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

David R. Ellis

Children

Columbus

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

Sean Connery

America

Columbus

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.